Display recent posts in multiple separate div's on same page

Assuming the code just loops over an array, you need only put the <div> section inside that loop. For example:

foreach ($recent_posts as $recent_post) {
?>
<div>
<?php
    echo $recent_post;
?>
</div>
<?php
}

For some reason it doesn’t look like you’re using WordPress.

WordPress is not installed on the dev server I linked to, but I’m calling the “wp-blog-header.php” from our live server where WP is installed at the top of the page.

Let me post the code here so I can offer more detailed as to what my issue is (see below). The first div is getting the recent post properly. However, when I try to use the same code in the second div, it causes a 500 error and I’m not sure how to use multiple loops (I tried reading the WP documentation but couldn’t quite grasp it).

<div class="col-md-6">
	<article>
		<?php
			global $post;
			$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 1 );
			$myposts = get_posts( $args );
			foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post);
		?>
		<div class="date">
			<span class="day"><?php the_time('jS'); ?></span>
			<span class="month"><?php the_time('M, Y'); ?></span>
		</div>
		<h4>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
			<?php endforeach; ?>
		</h4>
		<p>
			<?php
				the_excerpt_max_charlength(140);

				function the_excerpt_max_charlength($charlength) {
					$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
					$charlength++;

					if ( mb_strlen( $excerpt ) > $charlength ) {
						$subex = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $charlength - 5 );
						$exwords = explode( ' ', $subex );
						$excut = - ( mb_strlen( $exwords[ count( $exwords ) - 1 ] ) );
						if ( $excut < 0 ) {
							echo mb_substr( $subex, 0, $excut );
						} else {
							echo $subex;
						}
						echo '...';
					} else {
						echo $excerpt;
					}
				}
			?>
		</p>
	</article>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
	<article>
		<div class="date">
			<span class="day">15</span>
			<span class="month">Jan</span>
		</div>
		<h4><a href="blog-post.html">Lorem ipsum dolor</a></h4>
	</article>
</div>